Deleted World News API news is not restored by a refresh that fails; a
refund goes only to the day the read was counted in, and not to a request
that timed out; a cockpit brief from another place is dropped, not kept for
a language change; a feed list started over lets scrolling ask again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <[email protected]>
Keep World News API results an hour at most and say caching needs its
permission; refund a read that never reached it; match Local by any pin;
assign a disputed area by a point inside it; untitled GDELT stories are
minor; hotspot counts leave out minor reports.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <[email protected]>
A slow re-read of a refused key read as unavailable until it landed; it
now stays refused. The first-read wait is 10 s, for a margin under the
browser's 15 s. A failed Conflicts read no longer stops Local's refresh,
which the server reads on its own. Tests cover GDELT's wait, the refused
key and a caller abort past the timeout, and fail rather than hang; the
docs say what a section serves meanwhile.
A country's first World News API read, or Liveuamap's, could take up to
20 s while the browser waits 15, so the panel showed the browser's own
"signal timed out". A read with nothing to serve yet is now waited for
at most 12 s, as GDELT's already was: past that the section answers
unavailable while the read goes on, and the next refresh is served from
it. A client timeout reads "News feed unavailable".
The bundled rules read fighting and crises; in everyday headlines their
words mislead ("Kazakhstan Advances in Global Digital Rankings" read as
ground fighting). A country's own stories in Local now keep World News
API's category (politics, business, else other) and carry no severity.
Fighting in the area still shows through the Conflicts reports placed
there.
An export is given up on (never published, unreadable, or failing three
times) only while GDELT itself answers: its list of exports read, or
another export of the same round read. An outage that answers 404, or junk,
for everything now gives up on nothing, and a failing file earns one strike
a round rather than three within the first seconds' rounds.
Docs: News's share token is 9; territories without a country code are named
as themselves too; the changelog fragment credits one pull request. Unused
exports dropped from the rules and stale scaffolding from the ledger tests.
With GEV_NEWS_ORIGIN unset, Core answers the News layer's routes itself.
Conflicts need no key: the last 24 h of GDELT 2.0 event exports, physical
violence only (CAMEO 18-20), one report per story (copies of one agency
story merged), placed where GDELT put it, a town the article's own words
name winning over a bare country, and titled by the article's page title
from the GKG export of the same quarter hour (the newest 3 h), else by its
address words. GDELT's actor coding is never shown. Exports are read up to
the newest GDELT lists; one that cannot be read is given up on without
holding the rest back, and an outage of two hours answers 502 rather than
an empty feed. With LIVEUAMAP_API_KEY, Liveuamap's mapped items join them.
Local reads World News API by the source country at the view centre
(WORLDNEWSAPI_KEY, at most WORLDNEWSAPI_DAILY_READS a day), with the
Conflicts reports placed inside the area. Disputed areas (11 from Natural
Earth, bundled) and territories without a country code are named as
themselves and read from no country's outlets; a country's outline leaves
them out.
Categories, relevance and severity come from shared rules; keyed answers
are cached and served while they refresh, and no key or address is logged.
